ArticleAntioxidants (Basel, Switzerland)2024
Oxidative Stress and Antioxidant Status in Adult Patients with Transfusion-Dependent Thalassemia: Correlation with Demographic, Laboratory, and Clinical Biomarkers.
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- Measures of cellular oxidative damage following vitamin E supplementation in young patients with transfusion-dependent thalassemia: a double-blind randomized controlled trial.BMC pediatrics · 2025Trial
- Green Tea Extract Attenuates Oxidative Stress and Prolongs Red Blood Cell Survival in Iron-Overloaded β-Thalassemic Mice.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Iron deficiency aggravates hepatic inflammation in suckling piglets via endoplasmic reticulum stress-driven NF-κB pathway activation.Journal of animal science and biotechnology · 2026Article
- Endothelial dysfunction and cardiac damage indicators in patients with β-thalassemia major under iron-chelation therapy.Therapeutic advances in hematology · 2026Article
- Dysregulated Expression of miR-222 and miR-15a in Transfusion-Dependent Thalassemia: Associations with Torque Teno Virus and Cytomegalovirus Infections.International journal of hematology-oncology and stem cell research · 2025Article
- Impact of hand grip strength reduce on health related quality of life in patients with transfusion-dependent thalassemia insights from the SF-36 survey: a cross-sectional analysis.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
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Abstract
Iron overload in beta transfusion-dependent thalassemia (β-TDT) may provoke oxidative stress and reduction of the antioxidant defenses, with serious consequences for the disease course and complications. The present study evaluated the oxidant/antioxidant status of β-TDT patients and its correlation with demographic, clinical, laboratory, and instrumental biomarkers. The OXY-adsorbent assay and the d-ROMs (Diacron, Grosseto, Italy) were evaluated in 58 β-TDT patients (mean age: 37.55 ± 7.83 years, 28 females) enrolled in the Extension-Myocardial Iron Overload in Thalassemia Network. Iron overload was quantified with R2* magnetic resonance imaging. Mean OXY was 323.75 ± 113.19 μmol HClO/mL and 39 (67.2%) patients showed a decreased OXY-Adsorbent level (<350 μmol HClO/mL), of whom 22 (37.9%) showed severely reduced levels. Mean d-ROMs was 305.12 ± 62.19 UA; 12 (20.7%) patients showed oxidative stress, and 4 (6.9%) elevated oxidative stress. OXY showed a significant negative correlation with global and segmental cardiac iron levels. D-ROMs levels significantly correlated with markers of cardiovascular risk (aging, glycemia, and N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide). Antioxidant depletion is frequent in β-TDT patients, where OXY might serve as additive biomarker to assess heart iron status, whereas the d-ROMs might be helpful to assess the cardiovascular risk burden.
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